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Nano-sized light mill drives micro-sized disk | Berkeley Lab
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Today At Berkeley Lab. Nano-sized light mill drives micro-sized disk. 510) 486-5375 • July 5, 2010. Manipulations of DNA and other biological molecules. This STM image shows a gammadion gold light mill nanomotor embedded in a silica microdisk. Inset is a magnified top view of the light mill. The results of this research are reported in the journal. In a paper titled, Light-driven nanoscale plasmonic motors. Co-authoring the paper with Zhang were Ming Liu, Thomas Zentgraf, Yongmin Liu and Guy Bartal.
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Angels, Demons, and Antihydrogen | Berkeley Lab
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Today At Berkeley Lab. Angels, Demons, and Antihydrogen. 8226; May 5, 2009. There’s nothing fictional about antimatter. It’s all around us, all the time. Researchers know how to create and store antiparticles and even make antihydrogen atoms. But gathering enough to fuel a rocket or make a bomb would take so much energy that no one (including the Vatican) needs to worry. Granted, antimatter may be the ultimate energy source the energy released by annihilating a mere milligram of antimatter would be equal...
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Engineering Nanoparticles for Maximum Strength | Berkeley Lab
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Today At Berkeley Lab. Engineering Nanoparticles for Maximum Strength. 8226; October 20, 2008. Paul Preuss, (510) 486-6249, paul preuss@lbl.gov. Individual nanocrystals are remarkably strong. But under stress, complex nanostructures quickly fail because of internal strains. New research on hollow nanospheres shows that engineering can greatly increase the strength of complex nanoparticles. The results could lead to stronger nanostructures and large-scale alloys as well. Andy Minor explains measuring stre...
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For Ultra-cold Neutrino Experiment, a Successful Demonstration | Berkeley Lab
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Today At Berkeley Lab. For Ultra-cold Neutrino Experiment, a Successful Demonstration. An international team of scientists releases early results from the CUORE experiment with implications for why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe. 510-486-4404 • April 9, 2015. Bottom view of a CUORE tower. Credit: CUORE Collaboration. The findings are twofold. First, the CUORE-0 results place some of the most sensitive constraints on the mass of the elusive Majorana neutrino to date. With thes...Secon...
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Meet the High-Performance Single-Molecule Diode | Berkeley Lab
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Today At Berkeley Lab. Meet the High-Performance Single-Molecule Diode. Major Milestone in Molecular Electronics Scored by Berkeley Lab and Columbia University Team. 510) 486-5375 • July 29, 2015. Researchers from Berkeley Lab and Columbia University have created the world’s highest-performance single-molecule diode using a combination of gold electrodes and an ionic solution. (Image courtesy of Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University). A US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility....
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Study Finds that the Price of Wind Energy in the United States is at an All-time Low, Averaging under 2.5¢/kWh | Berkeley Lab
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Today At Berkeley Lab. Study Finds that the Price of Wind Energy in the United States is at an All-time Low, Averaging under 2.5 /kWh. 510-486-4014 • August 10, 2015. Wind energy prices particularly in the central United States have hit new lows, with utilities selecting wind as the low cost option, Berkeley Lab Senior Scientist Ryan Wiser said. Moreover, enabled by technology advancements, wind projects are economically viable in a growing number of locations throughout the U.S. Wind power capacity addi...
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Berkeley Lab Spinoff Company Makes Fast, Accurate Nanoscale Sensor | Berkeley Lab
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Today At Berkeley Lab. Berkeley Lab Spinoff Company Makes Fast, Accurate Nanoscale Sensor. Optokey’s biochemical nose can be used in food safety, medical diagnosis, chemical analysis, and a wide array of other fields. 510) 486-6491 • August 4, 2015. Imagine being able to test your food in your very own kitchen to quickly determine if it carried any deadly microbes. Research conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and now being commercialized by Optokey may make that possible.
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Metabolic Path to Improved Biofuel Production | Berkeley Lab
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Today At Berkeley Lab. Metabolic Path to Improved Biofuel Production. 510) 486-5375 • March 4, 2015. The fungus Neurospora crassa is a type of red bread mold that naturally flourishes on the cellulose and hemicellulose components of plant cell walls. Jamie Cate led the discovery of new chemicals generated by fungi and bacteria that are used to digest xylose, one of the most abundant sugars in hemicellulose. (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt). Many cellulolytic fungi including. We believe that introducing. Cate i...
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Scientists Create Tough Ceramic That Mimics Mother of Pearl | Berkeley Lab
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Today At Berkeley Lab. Scientists Create Tough Ceramic That Mimics Mother of Pearl. 8226; December 5, 2008. Contact: Lynn Yarris (510) 486-5375, lcyarris@lbl.gov. The roughness of the alumina/PMMA hybrid ceramic controls the strength of the interfaces, which is critical in determining the material’s overall toughness as it affects the sliding process in the polymeric mortar layers. We have emulated nature’s toughening mechanisms to make ice-templated alumina hybrids that are comparable in specific streng...
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New Take on Impacts of Low Dose Radiation | Berkeley Lab
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Today At Berkeley Lab. New Take on Impacts of Low Dose Radiation. 510) 486-5375 • December 20, 2011. Imaging of a cell’s DNA damage response to radiation shows that 1.5 minutes after irradiation, the sizes and intensities of. Radiation induced foci (RIF) are small and weak, but 30 minutes later damage sites have clustered into larger and brighter RIF, probably reflecting DNA repair centers. Berkeley Lab biophysicist Sylvain Costes is generating 3D time lapse of DNA repair centers in human cells to unders...
